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I 12 CHANDLER. CHANDLER. Record," and continued in charge until March, 18S6. In April of the same year he started a new paper, the " Chelsea Ga- zette," which he successfully publishes at the present time. Mr. Champlin was member of the com- mon council of Chelsea from 18S1 to '86 inclusive — the last two years president of the body. He was a member of the Legis- lature 1887 and '88, serving the first year as clerk of the committee on street railways, the second year, clerk of the committee on towns. Mr. Champlin was mayor of Chelsea in 1889, to which position he was elected by a large majority. He is a member of the order of F. & A. M., an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the Winnisimmet Benevolent Society, of which he was secretary several years, also a mem- ber of many social organizations. He is a man of unquestioned ability and persistent energy. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Champlin is unmarried. CHANDLER, HENRY HORATIO, son of Horatio Nelson and Louisa M. (Gilson) Chandler, was born in Chesterfield, Ches- hire county, N. H., July 25, 1837. He obtained his early education in the common schools of his native place. His first connection in business life was made with Mr. Barrett, Charlestown, Mass., in the dry-goods business, under the firm name of Barrett & Chandler. In 1861 he bought Mr. Barrett's interest, and has since carried on the business alone. Mr. Chandler was married in Charles- town, November 27, 1862, to Sarah A., daughter of Moren and Sarah A. (Aldrich) Knight. Of this union were two children : Luella C. and Henry N. Chandler. Mr. Chandler is a member of the Henry Price Lodge of Masons, also of the Bunker Hill Lodge of Odd Fellows; he held the office of treasurer of the latter organiza- tion for five years. He is also a member of the Paul Revere Lodge of the Knights of Honor, and has served as its treasurer since its organization. He is a member of the ward and city committee, and also of the 6th congres- sional district committee, represented in Congress by Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. He is treasurer of the board of trustees of Trinity Methodist church, and his resi- dence is Charlestown. CHANDLER, PELEG WHITMAN, son of Peleg and Esther (Parsons) Chandler, was born in New Gloucester, Cumberland county, Maine, April 12, 1816, and died in Boston, May 28, 1889. Peleg Chandler was a counselor-at-law, a graduate of Brown University, and died in 1S48. His father, Peleg Chandler, was a native of Duxbury, being a direct descendant of Edmund Chandler, who emigrated from England to that place in the year 1633. The home in New Gloucester was made just prior to the Declaration of Independ- ence. The grandfather represented the town in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1774. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Chandler was Colonel Isaac Parsons, a native of Gloucester, who moved to Maine in 1 76 1. He was also a member of the General Court, and was an officer in the revolutionary army. Mr. Chandler fitted for college in the classical department of Bangor Theological Seminary. At the age of eighteen he graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1834. Mr. Chandler studied law in his father's office in Bangor, afterwards at the law school at Cambridge, completing his course with his kinsman, the late Professor The- ophilus Parsons, of Boston. Hewasadmit- ted to the bar in 1837, and established himself in Boston. For half a century he practiced his profession with remarkable success. In 1836, while yet a student, he be- came associated with the "Boston Daily Advertiser" as a reporter of legal proceed- ings. In 1S38 he established the "Law Re- porter," a monthly law journal, continuing it for about ten years, when he sold it to Stephen H. Phillips, afterwards attorney general of the state. In 184S Mr. Chand- ler published the first volume of "Ameri- can Criminal Trials," which was followed by another volume in 1 844. These volumes, which are now out of print, were written in a way that persons unlearned in law find them very interesting. Mr. Chandler was elected to the common council in the city of Boston in 1843, and was its president in 1844 and '45, when he declined a re-elec- tion. In 1844 he delivered the city oration on the 4th of July, the subject being " The Morals of Freedom." During the years 1844, '45, '46, '62 and '63, Mr. Chandler was a member of the House of Representatives. In June, 184O, he was chosen to succeed John Pickering as city solicitor, which office he held until his resignation, 1853. During that period he prepared and printed a volume contain- ing the ordinances of the city of Boston, and the digest of the laws relating thereto,